Mighty Old Bones

Jane Thistle and Phoebe Twigg are as different as two best friends can be. Phoebe has never seen any reason to leave her small Southern hometown, while Jane, the urbane widow of a career military officer, has traveled all over, only recently putting down roots in Tullulah, Alabama. A thunderstorm knocks down a tree on Jane's property and uncovers a pile of skeletal remains buried underneath. When tests discount their best theories and point to a far more recent death, Jane and Phoebe find themselves in the midst of some strange happenings.

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Not nearly as engaging as the first in the series. If you could call the first book a mystery with some archaeological bits tossed in, then this is the opposite. There’s so much concern about the land and the site that the plot suffers. Even the paranormal angle wasn’t as charming. This seems to be the last book in this series (so far), and I’m unsure if I’d read a third.